European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 27, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Leave Zach Joyful residents Greet Allied troops on patrol in City a Happy girl talks to a British Marine patrolling Zakhoo Iraq after the last iraqi police officers withdrew Early Friday. Zakhoo Iraq apr British and . Troops patrolled the streets of this northeastern City Friday to the Joy of its inhabitants after Iraq bowed to Allied demands and pulled out its police. In new York . Secretary general Javier Perez do Cullar said the United nations will take Over the .-installed refugee Camp near Zakhoo Iraq within Days a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a eight Man columns of British troops in combat gear walked slowly along the main Street Happy children trailing behind them. They stopped occasionally to mingle with the mainly kurdish population that crowded the streets after emerging for the first time from their Homes once the police left. A i am very Happy because the americans and the British help me Anu Iraq a said Lobar Samad a student. Quot every kurd in Northern Iraq is very Happy a he said. Two american armoured personnel carriers also rolled through the City prompting smiles and Waves from the sidewalks. Quot the people Here arc glad to have us. I know the government in t too Happy. I fee we re doing something worthwhile a said Marine Lance Cpl. Maurice Farewell of Myrtle Beach . According to residents in this town near the turkish Border the police left in buses late thursday and Early Friday. Most people estimated that 700 to 800 were withdrawn a figure higher than the army s estimate. There were no iraqi police in evidence although a see iraqi on Page 10gorbachev seeks chernobyl cleanup Aid Moscow apr Mikhail s. Gorbachev is asking the world to help his county Cope with the Multi Bil lion Dollar legacy of contamination that the chernobyl nuclear Power Plant unleashed five years ago Friday. A radioactive Cloud Rose Over the soviet republics of byelorussian and the Ukraine and moved quickly across Europe after the april 26, 1986, blast and ensuing fire in reactor no. 4. The soviet government says the disaster killed 32 people two immediately 28 within three months and two More in the past five years. But some soviet scientists and Radical politicians in the Ukraine claim the actual death toll was at least 250 and could be As High As 10000. Lawmakers in the russian federation legislature in Moscow stopped their work for a minute of silence Friday to remember those who died the state news Agency Tass said. Soviet newspapers devoted several articles and commentaries to the anniversary including an entire special supplement called lessons from chernobyl in the communist party daily pravda. The Radical television program ten focused nearly half of its midday newscast on help Given by foreigners including plan loads of Aid expected from the United states Britain and Germany. The soviet government blamed the steam explosion on human error during a a routine shutdown of the reactor 80 Miles North of Kiev. But Many soviet arid Western experts also fault the design of the 1,000-Mcg-see chernobyl on Page 10 Navy to quit by Gary Miller and Chuck Vinch staff writers Naples Italy a the Quality of life for sailors and their families in Naples cannot be improved and the Navy should pull out of the area a North Carolina congressman says. ,. A budget reductions escalating lease costs italian inflation an unprofitable Exchange operation exorbitant local National labor costs and Adverse currency fluctuations Are exacerbating an already difficult situation a rep. Martin Lancaster , wrote in a letter to h. Lawrence Garrett Iii Secretary of the Navy. Lancaster the new chairman of the House armed services committees mor ale welfare and recreation panel was part of a delegation that visited bases in Germany Italy and Greece from March 26 to april 3.in his april 4 letter Lancaster suggested moving As much of the Naples naval support activity As possible to Comiso As in Southern Sicily. Comiso is scheduled to close May 27 under the intermediate Range nuclear forces treaty which eliminated the bases ground launched cruise missiles. He also recommended altering1 two other Naples missions a one of the support activity a major missions is to provide services to the 6th see Naples on Page 10 pcs chief is Colin them the Way he sees them London a Gen. Colin l. Powell chairman of the joint chiefs of staff put the times of London right in a letter to the editor Friday about Why his friends Call him Koh Lin not Kah Lin. Philip Howard the papers writer on linguistic affairs wrote in a lengthy and Learned article about the name Colin on feb. 22 a a. He pronounces it with a Long of so As to rhyme with Bowling. What can it mean Quot two things Are going on Here i think. One is the american wish not to put up with elitist British pronunciations. The other Factor is Amer ican individuality and the wish to be different in but Powell who became famous in America for his prominent role in the persian Gulf War wrote in his letter a emr. Howard attributes courage to me a and to americans in general a for choosing to pronounce my name As its spelling looks. 1 am afraid. The truth is not As bold and Brazen As he surmises. Quot my parents were British subjects and they named me Colin Kah Lin. Being British they knew very Well How the name was supposed to be. See chief on Page 10
